Over the last decade,power systems in the world have suffered a number of blackouts;caused by cascading failures.Such incidents resulted in major economic losses and social impacts,induced great concerns on the grid s...Over the last decade,power systems in the world have suffered a number of blackouts;caused by cascading failures.Such incidents resulted in major economic losses and social impacts,induced great concerns on the grid security and prompted people to understand and analyze the mechanism of the power system's cascading failures and blackouts.Conventional analysis on power systems constructs a detailed model of every component of the system,and focuses on dynamic behaviors of individual components.Therefore,it is difficult to uncover the global dynamic characteristic while deeply studying the cascading failures and the mechanism of large blackouts.The complex system theory can provide global perspectives of cascading blackouts.展开更多
文摘Over the last decade,power systems in the world have suffered a number of blackouts;caused by cascading failures.Such incidents resulted in major economic losses and social impacts,induced great concerns on the grid security and prompted people to understand and analyze the mechanism of the power system's cascading failures and blackouts.Conventional analysis on power systems constructs a detailed model of every component of the system,and focuses on dynamic behaviors of individual components.Therefore,it is difficult to uncover the global dynamic characteristic while deeply studying the cascading failures and the mechanism of large blackouts.The complex system theory can provide global perspectives of cascading blackouts.
